Category Archives: March 2014

Nova & The Experience – New Single + Tour Dates

Nova Shipwrecked 2Indie pop favourites Nova & The Experience have just announced a nine-date East Coast tour, to promote the release of their new single ‘Shipwrecked’.

‘Shipwrecked’ is the last song off N.A.T.E’s latest EP – ‘There’s Something Here’. The song helps to round off the loose narrative that was told throughout the EP. This slow building track (in 6/8 timing, unusual for a pop song) was again produced by Lachlan Mitchell and is rolling, layered and visually descriptive.
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Drawn From Bees return from 2013 hiatus with a Free Digital Release and Residency

DFB2013 was a year of change for Drawn from Bees, with iconic lead guitarist, Raven Danger Jones, retiring from the band. Followed by a period of unrest, discontent and failed attempts to work on recording new material, the band went into hiding.

Towards the end of the year, DFB rediscovered their mojo and began to work on material that will be in a forthcoming EP, due for release in May. During the songwriting process on a rainy Brisbane summer afternoon, Dan, Stew and Matt wrote and recorded Song for Mary Lou.
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Exhibition: Matt Palmer | Images of Note

Images Of Note PosterMatt Palmer’s passion for live music and photography took him from shooting in small, sweaty clubs to the massive stages of festivals like Big Day Out.

Now the award-winning photographer presents the best of his work in the stunning exhibition Images of Note. It spans six years of live music in Australia, in Brisbane and the Gold Coast. It features music legends Iggy Pop, Pearl Jam and Metallica along with some of Australia’s biggest names, from Nick Cave to Powderfinger and Robert Forster of The Go-Betweens, and captures future stars in the ascendant like Gotye and Paramore. If this was a festival, it would be the line-up of a lifetime.
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Ash Grunwald | Australian Autumn Tour 2014 announced

AshHot off the stomping, hairy heels of Ash’s GARGANTUA album release and tour with Scott and Andy from The Living End, Ash is returning to the pavement as the lone troubadour, to pound his way up and down his favourite haunts. Renowned for the most incredibly, thumping live shows to come out of single human being, Ash is super excited about being back on the stomp box and reaffirming his decade long reputation as being the loudest one-man-band around.

During Ash’s time with Scott and Andy – one of the country’s most skilled rhythm sections, he was forced to step things up and do something he’d never done before – practice! The excitement of the challenge – the fear almost of playing with two such musical entities – spawned in Ash a passion for musical self-betterment he hadn’t felt since that all consuming, all too common teenage obsession of wanting to become the greatest musician in the world.
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Buried In Verona | Announce National Tour for Faceless

BIVFollowing on from the news that Buried In Verona will release their new album “Faceless”, the Sydney metal band are excited to announce their national album shows. The Faceless Tour will see them play 10 dates nationally to launch their new album of the same name.

Fans have already been given a taste of “Faceless”, out Friday 7th of March through UNFD, via lead singles “Splintered” and “Illuminate”. “Faceless” delivers the same lyrical in your-face confrontation as it 2012 predecessor “Notorious”, with a bigger and more diverse sound than BIV fans are accustomed to.
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African-Spanish Songstress Buika To Tour In March

BuikaWorld music superstar Buika will give her debut Australian performance at Sydney’s City Recital Hall Angel Place on Wednesday 5 March at 8pm, performing songs from her latest, Grammy nominated album, La Noche Más Larga (The Longest Night), before heading to WOMADelaide.

The Spanish singer of African descent is making waves around the world with her unique sound – a ‘velvet gravel’ voice that brings an incredible uniqueness to her renditions of flamenco, jazz and soul works – along with her own emotive original works.
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GOOD LIFE 2014 | Perth venue move to Claremont Showgrounds | new acts added

GoodLife2014Good Life Music Festival, along with Future Music, Frontier Touring and Mellen Events, have always prioritised the demands of WA music fans and work hard to create the best festival experience for the public. It’s important to us that fans of different genres are able to experience the best festivals on offer in WA.

With this in mind, Good Life Festival has agreed to move our Monday 3 March event in WA from our original site of Joondalup Arena to Claremont Showgrounds, with the support of the venue and the local Council. We felt strongly about assisting Soundwave with the logistical issues they were faced with, as our finishing time is much earlier than Soundwave. This allows Soundwave to fully utilise Joondalup Arena and offer the experience they envision for their festival patrons.
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SuicideGirls “Blackheart Burlesque” Australian Tour

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SuicideGirls – the sexiest, smartest, most dangerous collection of outsider women in the world are bringing their full Blackheart Burlesque Tour to Australia.

This unique tour is unlike any other Burlesque show.

“This show was something else. The girls, besides being gorgeous as hell, are amazing and talented on stage.” 
(The Age Of Metal)
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Twelve Foot Ninja announce ‘Troll Burger’ Tour

ninjaIn honour of their much anticipated crowd funded video, Twelve Foot Ninja have announced an Australian headline tour this March/April.

Twelve Foot Ninja broke crowd funding records when they raised $52,600 to make their new video clip – successfully crowd funding the highest financial target for a music video. As the controversial anti-cyber bullying video spreads like wildfire online, the band have announced an Australian headline tour aptly named ‘The Troll Burger’ tour in March/April, before making their grand return to the U.S. for a handful of festivals including Rock On The Range and Carolina Rebellion.
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The Dead Daisies – 2014 Australian Tour

TDDAustralia will have the chance to welcome back one of their hottest musical exports in years when The Dead Daisies kick off a series of shows supporting the February 7th release of their anticipated Debut self-titled Album, “The Dead Daisies”.

The line-up for the Australian dates will feature Jon Stevens (INXS/Noiseworks), David Lowy (Red Phoenix/Mink), Richard Fortus (Guns N’ Roses/Psychedelic Furs), Dizzy Reed (Guns N’ Roses/Hookers & Blow), Marco Mendoza (Thin Lizzy/Whitesnake) and newcomer to the band, John Tempesta (The Cult/Rob Zombie).
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Public Enemy Announce Australian Tour Supports

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Public Enemy announce some of the biggest names in Australian hip-hop as their supports, including Melbourne’s Mantra, Canberra’sCitizen Kay, and Brisbane’s Impossible Odds, with Adelaide’s DJ Sanchez and Melbourne’s DJ MzRizk filling out the DJ sets.
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Madeleine Peyroux – ‘The Blue Room’ Tour – Announcing 2nd Sydney Show!

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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7, 2013 – Live Nation has announced a second Sydney performance by MADELEINE PEYROUX when the celebrated award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and guitarist begins her Australian tour later

Joined on stage by her band, plus a four-piece string section under the direction of first violinist Hiroko Taguchi, the concerts will showcase what Madeleine Peyroux is best known for: reinterpreting songs with an emotion and depth that can not help but touch the soul, as she performs a selection of well-known songs from her catalogue in addition to those from her latest album ‘The Blue Room’.
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The Jungle Giants – On Tour this March, April & May 2014

Jungle GiantsWith a huge 2013 behind them and a series of Big Day Out performances under their belts, The Jungle Giants have announced one last round of capital city dates.

The tour – which the band has lovingly named the ‘Tuss Tour’ – includes All Ages and Under 18s shows. It will also see The Jungle Giants take over the lane way behind historic Fortitude Valley venue Ric’s for ‘Ric’s Big Backyard’; a block party of epic proportions. The line up includes The Jungle Giants, Millions, Little Odessa, ShortStraw and Moses Gun Collective as well as DJ sets from some of Brisbane’s finest party DJs.
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Lisa Marie Presley – “Storm & Grace” Tour – Australia March 2014

LMPLisa Marie Presley will perform with her five piece band for eight Australian shows only when she tours in March as part of her STORM & GRACE WORLD TOUR. It’s her first Australian tour in eight years.

With all the hoopla that has surrounded her, it’s easy to forget that Lisa Marie Presley is at heart a simple Southern girl whose earliest musical memories are of obsessively listening to 45’s in her bedroom at Graceland and of her dad catching her singing into a hairbrush in front of a mirror at the age of three.
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To Hell With Honour – “Not Now Not Ever” Tour

noIf you haven’t heard of To Hell With Honour, you are about to and their introduction isn’t going to be polite, either. Their brutality is lauded in Western Australia and they are about to give the rest of Australia a taste.

To Hell With Honour’s EP ‘Conscious’, featuring single ‘Not Now Not Ever’, is a devastating blast to the head from the Perth 5 piece. They are hitting the ground running in 2014 and making their first foray into the East Coast metal scene with an upcoming tour.
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